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...yesterday, the Boston Globe’s City Weekly section, which covered Cambridge news for 17 years, has officially published its final issue. (Can we get a tear? Anyone? Hello?) The section was terminated in an effort to cut costs; local Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline news will continue to be covered on Boston.com, the Globe’s website.Cambridge news is now only covered in print by The Cambridge Chronicle (a weekly) and by us. Several blogs, though, deliver city news, including the Chronicle's Cantabrigia. We at FlyBy are actually quite amused by the massive list of less...
...Hello comrades...
...after the holy city of Medina. Its role models are portrayed by action figures, each with one of the 99 attributes of God, in Kuwaiti comic books. It has even changed slang. Young Egyptians often now answer the telephone by saying "Salaam alaikum"--"Peace be upon you"--instead of "Hello." Many add the tagline "bi izn Allah"--"if God permits"--when discussing everything from the weather to politics. "They think they're getting a bonus with God," muses Ziada...
...rated AAA. But when things unwind--and have they ever--any default gets compounded by the chain of linked bonds. The multiplier effect works like this: while 4.4% of the typical loans tied to Jupiter's bonds are in default, nearly 59% of Jupiter's investments are now worthless. Hello, toxic asset. (See the top 10 financial collapses...
...propensity to stick it in the eye of the establishment. The site proudly displays its amassed correspondence from corporate lawyers who have written by the dozen to give notice of copyright infringement. Take this response in 2004 to complaints by the U.S.-based gaming software giant Entertainment Arts: "Hello and thank you for contacting us. We have shut down the website in question. Oh wait, just kidding. We haven't, since the site in question is fully legal. Unlike certain other countries, such as the one you're in, we have sane copyright laws here. But we also have polar...